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Quotes About Certainty

Faith holds on to truth and reason from what it knows to be fact.
~ Martyn
When falsehood can look so like the truth, who can assure themselves of certain happiness?
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Between the truth and the faith, we must always choose the first one.
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
With faith, you may get stuck in a very big lie and may lose the truth forever; but with doubt, you can always reach the truth!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Most of the time in our world, truth is just opinion.
~ Michael Ondaatje
Is that the truth, Jimmy?" I ask without looking at him. "It's the truth and it come to ya!" I smile.
~ Ned Vizzini
What I most wanted even at that early age, was to capture and hold the truth, with the certainty and love that it brings.
~ Neil Turok
At times truth may not seem probable. [Fr., Le vrai peut quelquefois n'etre pas vraisemblable.]
~ Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
Truth resides where there is faith.
~ Paulo Coelho
Faith is not a reliable path to the truth.
~ Peter Boghossian
Faith is the problem. Faith is unreliable way to think about problems that will not lead to the truth.
~ Peter Boghossian
Too many proofs spoil the truth.
~ Peter Greenaway
Unless you have the courage to doubt you will never come to know the truth.
~ Rajneesh
There is no right faith in believing what is true, unless we believe it because it is true.
~ Richard Whately
The word of knowledge, strictly employed, implies three things: truth, proof, and conviction.
~ Richard Whately
I would not presume to say that I know anything about "The Truth," whatever that is.
~ Rob Nilsson
When you spring to an idea, and decide it is truth, without evidence, you blind yourself to other possibilities.
~ Robin Hobb
You knew the truth all along, Colie. That's all matters. You knew.
~ Sarah Dessen
Truth is when your mind and your gut agree.
~ Shannon Hale
Even if all parts of a problem seem to fit together like the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, one has to remember that the probable need not necessarily be the truth and the truth not always probable.
~ Sigmund Freud
Satisfied is no test of truth. Actuality is steadily far from idiosyncratic secure.
~ Swami Vivekananda
No, truth is something desperate, an' she's got it. Believe me, it's something desperate, an' she's got it.
~ Tennessee Williams
Nothing has to be true forever. Just for long enough, to tell you the truth.
~ Terry Pratchett
Truth in the end shall prevail.
~ Ulpian Fulwell